Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is only one question," wrote Columnists Joseph & Stewart Alsop after President Truman's surprise victory in 1948, "on which professional politicians, polltakers, political reporters and other wiseacres and prognosticators can any longer speak with much authority. That is how they want their crow cooked...
Inside Dope. Stewart Alsop moved ahead of all the rest, and openly bid for the covered dish on the table. He had talked to National Committeeman Emmet Kelley, a Truman big wheel in New Hampshire, who predicted "a Truman landslide." Alsop predicted one, too, gave Kefauver an "outside chance" of "capturing just one delegate." One reason for that, Alsop said, was that Kefauver had "incautiously" transgressed "one of the great, built-in rules of American politics . . . that you simply do not challenge an incumbent President in your own party...
After voters rewrote Alsop's rules, and soundly thrashed Harry Truman, red-faced Stewart and brother Joseph joined in their column to give an explanation of sorts: brother Stu had been misled by none other than Kefauver himself. In a not-for-attribution interview, Kefauver had told Alsop that he did not have a chance. "Kefauver," reported the brothers solemnly, "certainly seemed quite honestly convinced that he had no real chance . . . Everybody was wrong-as usual...
Bend of the River (Universal) sheds enough Technicolored blood to drench half a dozen ordinary westerns. It starts with a near-miss when Jimmy Stewart, guide of an Oregon-bound wagon train, saves Arthur Kennedy from being lynched as a horse thief. Soon they are both busy sticking knives into a raiding party of Shoshone Indians...
Bend of the River at the RKO Keith is another good Jimmy Stewart western. In Technicolor...